Special Halloween - dress up if you like - Critical Mass
In support of squatting.

Meet on the South Bank beneath Waterloo Bridge.
We're planning to move off at 7pm sharp.

Squatting is direct action against capitalism. If you don't have time to support squatting because you think there are more worthy campaigns, you are deluded.

Squatting is clearly not direct action against capitalism. The vast majority of squatting is only in any way annoying to capitalists because they let themselves get annoyed. If they just let people be it would barely touch them. In the sense that you're talking about there ARE far more important campaigns ALWAYS, but ESPECIALLY now.

However, the reason we should try to save squatting is because a small minority of squatters aren't useless clueless middle class hippies thinking they're making a difference (just as this poster thinks squatting makes a difference). A small minority actually need it as housing. The vast majority of anarchists and anticapitalists have forgotten this in their desperation to save their cushy existence. Look at how the above poster didn't mention the fact that squatting provides shelter for the desperate - but only focussed on the (clearly nonexistent) political capital to be gained out of squatting.

And we call ourselves a movement for the poor.

- "small minority of squatters aren't useless clueless middle class hippies"... wtf?!

no, in fact the majority of ppl squatting are not your classic party prats at all.

and sure you can tar me with the same brush, hey i'm also commenting on indymedia when i could be getting out and doing something more useful with my life but i thought i would chime in on squint's trolling (and maybe i already did do something useful today)

i remember ha! replying to another trolling comment which has since been deleted/hidden

even so, ha! is correct to suggest squatting is direct action against capitalism. it is by definition. it means people do not have to work to pay the rent or the mortgage. that would be obvious to most but squint chooses to miss the point and attack ha! squint makes several assumptions based on .. nothing at all

"A small minority actually need it as housing" - minority?

"the (clearly nonexistent) political capital to be gained out of squatting." what does this mean???

"And we call ourselves a movement for the poor." - do we?

bitching on indymedia aside, today is a sad day activism if squatting has been criminalised (firm details anyone?) buy hey the law is one thing, implementation is another